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City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> • Highway 10 Pedestrian Bridge <br /> January 27, 1997 <br /> Page 2 <br /> primary route for school children going to,Edgewood Middle School and Irondale High School. <br /> A bridge at this location would give access between Wildwood Manor, a senior citizen housing <br /> development, and the Mounds View Square Shopping Center. <br /> The citizen task force recommended a spiral design rather than the original switchback design <br /> submitted with the grant application(see attached diagram). The switchback design would have <br /> involved long ramps on both sides of the highway. Along the Mounds View Square frontage, they <br /> would have blocked views of the shopping center from the highway and interfered with access. It <br /> was also questionable whether people would use the bridge if the access points were at the end of <br /> long ramps far from the intersection. The spiral design was considered much more graceful, <br /> attractive and functional. This design did require, however, getting easements from the property <br /> owners on both sides of Highway 10 and dealing with an existing drainage detention pond on the <br /> Mounds View Square property. Sabri Ayez, representing BRW, presented the spiral design to <br /> City Council which was approved as the preferred design. <br /> Funding and Budget: <br /> The grant funds 80% of the project construction costs, with the community paying 20% of <br /> • construction costs plus engineering and inspection costs. Resolution No. 4343 was passed by <br /> City Council on November 13, 1995 which identified the following funding sources to pay the <br /> City's share of bridge costs: <br /> Franchise Fee $ 82,642 <br /> Special Projects Fund $41,558 <br /> General Fund $ 31,000 <br /> Street Light Fund $ 25,000 <br /> Activity Fund $ 10.800 <br /> $190,000 <br /> These funds were to be used as follows: <br /> Match Funds for Grant $120,000 <br /> Engineering Design and Inspection Costs $ 65,000 <br /> Contingency $ 5.000 <br /> $190,000 <br /> Tasks in Progress <br /> • 1. Acquisition of Easements: Easements have been obtained from Wildwood Manor and <br /> from Ramsey County to allow construction of the bridge abutments on the south side of <br />